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Hell's Kitchen Season 10: Episode 1 Recap

Posted on 06/04/2012 by Todd in Hells Kitchen

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Hell's Kitchen Season 10

by Todd Betzold

 

Gordon Ramsay is back for the tenth season of Hell's Kitchen, as eighteen new hopefuls step up to the grill in hopes of becoming the winner and gain a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay Steak in the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.

 

The 18 new chefs arrive at Hell's Kitchen and Sous Chef Scott meets them and tells them that eight years ago he told Chef Ramsay he would do anything to become a head chef, including shave his head...which of these 18 were ready to do that. Two chefs step up before Chef Ramsay stops the madness.

 

The first challenge...the teams (again, men versus women) have 45 minutes to cook up their signature dishes. We get to meet some of the chefs, including Brian who feels he is different and Chef Ramsay will like him...he then gets caught whistling and Chef Ramsay tells him to stop. We then meet Kimmie, who is from the hood in Tennessee and has worked her ass off to get here. To clarify, the two contestants that shaved their heads were Scott's friends and Andi was wearing a bald headpiece...tricky tricky.

 

The winner this season gets a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay Steak in Vegas and $250,000. Chef Ramsay then calls up the dishes...up first is Robyn from Hollywood, FL, who makes a delicious dish...visually perfect, sauce is great. Next is Don from Houston, TX...Chef Ramsay questions if it is a portion for one, but everything is bigger in Texas. He says the spices are so powerful...so, ladies gain the first point.

 

Next up are Tiffany from Vermont and Guy from New York...Tiffany is trying to prove she is not some ditzy blonde...Chef Ramsay says it feels like a wet diaper...disgusting. Guy tells him not to try it...the chocolate sauce got burned. Chef Ramsay tastes it and he says it tastes like a fish sundae...no points for either. Meanwhile, Clemenza keeps coughing and Chef Ramsay asks if he is ok and he says he is...he looks like he is going to pass out.

 

Next up...Roshni, who Chef Ramsay says has a perfect balance of flavors...good job versus Royce, whose executive chef is Season 1 runner-up Ralph Pagano...Chef Ramsay says he has passed on some skills to him and they both earn a point...women are still ahead 2-1.

 

Now we have Danielle (Chef Ramsay says it tastes a mess) taking on Justin (you nailed the seasoning)...Justin takes the point and ties it up for the men, 2-2. Now it is Kimmie (Chef Ramsay said there's no way I am taking that to Vegas) versus Brian (Chef Ramsay says a dessert? What are you doing?)...a failure for both and no points. Next is Barbie (soggy potatoes) against Chris (burnt food)...another scoreless round and still tied 2-2.

 

To try and score some points, we have Briana (the duck tastes delicious) versus Patrick (you've nailed the seasoning)...both do a great job and points for both of them...now tied 3-3. Now it is Dana (scallops are cooked beautifully...they taste great) versus Tayvon (it is hideous and rank...it really is bad)...one point for Dana and a 4-3 lead for the women.

 

The last pairing...Christina (amazing...great combination) versus Clemenza (you've seasoned it beautifully...has a seasoning of truffle)...point for Christina and the women win 5-3. With the loss, the men will not only clean up their kitchen, but they will clean up the women's kitchen as well. For the win, the women will get a steak BBQ cooked by Season 3 winner Rock and Season 6 winner Dave Levey...the women get a chance to pick at their brains in hopes of gaining some knowledge in taking out the men to win this thing.

The men (Blue Team) get done with their task and head back to look at the dinner menu...the women (Red Team) come back and look at their dinner menu as well, but with a few drinks in them they seem to get off-topic very quickly.

 

The chefs head to Hell's Kitchen for the first dinner...the women seem nervous, while the men seem very confident in the kitchen. Chef Ramsay comes in and lines up the chefs...he asks Briana what the entrees are and she blanks...he asks her again and she gets them...time to go to their stations.

 

The customers arrive and the chefs start cooking...Roshni is cooking up the scallops and sends some to Chef Ramsay and he sends them back...she tries again and fails again. Meanwhile, the men are working on appetizers and Royce is making his salad and needs anchovies...Guy refuses to go get them...Royce feels ambushed.

 

Roshni tries her hand at scallops again and fails again...he sends her away, even though she doesn't want to...she has never walked off a line...Roshni is pissed. The women finally get their first appetizers out and they customers enjoy them.

 

The men send out their first appetizers and Chef Ramsay sends it back...the squab is still raw it can fly...Tayvon is responsible. It is now an hour into dinner service and the customers have not received any food from the men. Now it is time for the men to get crap about the scallops...Justin is cooking them, but Tayvon cut them and they are cut poorly...Chef Ramsay goes off.

 

It is now 75 minutes into dinner service and the men have yet to send out any food...Chef Ramsay has had enough of Tayvon, so he kicks him out of the kitchen. Chef Ramsay is over the men, so now he goes back to the women's team, who have been steadily sending out appetizers. They are now moving onto the entrees...the dough on the Beef Wellingtons are raw...another pissed off Chef Ramsay...15 minutes to wait on the Wellingtons, so service is dead silent.

 

Now we go back to the men's team...Royce makes some spaghetti and sends some out that is uncooked...Royce gets kicked out of the kitchen. Two hours into dinner service and the women are stalled on entrees and the men are still working on appetizers. The men send up more raw food and Chef Ramsay kicks ALL of them out! With no men in the kitchen, Chef Ramsay focuses all his attention on the women...they can't get the entrée right, so Chef Ramsay says to shut it down and clean up.

 

Time for them all to stand in front of Chef Ramsay...100 customers, 18 chefs and no entrees served. The losing team tonight is the men...they have to select the two weakest links for tonight. They argue their way to figure out nominations...Don, Royce and Tayvon are the names coming up, even though Don did nothing wrong...Clemenza feels Don is the weakest chef there.

 

After their discussions, the nominees are Tayvon and Don...Chef Ramsay says they not only cooked crap, but they came to a crap consensus. Chef Ramsay says the weakest chefs are Tayvon and Royce...he gives them both a chance to say why they should remain in Hell's Kitchen. He is really disappointed in both of them, but he sends Royce back in line and Tayvon is the first chef going home.

 

The two-part season premiere of Hell's Kitchen continues tomorrow night at 8/7c on FOX.

 

(Image courtesy of FOX)

 

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